Spirituality, phrases, struggle

Spirituality page, new quote and photo
https://sandradodd.com/spirituality

To the collection of phrases to hear and avoid, added "walked all over me" and comment by Tara F:
https://sandradodd.com/phrases

Stop struggling! Added a section and five links, near the bottom of "Struggle"
https://sandradodd.com/struggle

photo (a link) by Amber Ivey

Screwing up; video games; rebellion

Two new pages, not completely new:

How to Screw it Up—talk given in California in 2010
Full page dedicated to that talk, with plans (hopes) for a transcript
https://sandradodd.com/screwitup2010.html

Effects of Video Games—mostly about Grand Theft Auto; mostly humor (with truth)
https://sandradodd.com/videogames/marty

New by Karen James, about a third of the way down:
https://sandradodd.com/rebellion

photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd

Seeing, Etiquette, NVC

Short, still, page on seeing. I hope to expand it, but it's good as is, too!
https://sandradodd.com/seeing

A passage added to the page on etiquette for unschoolers
https://sandradodd.com/etiquette.html

Problems with "Nonviolent Communication" (NVC), for Unschooling
A couple of additions and link repairs on my page explaining why NVC isn't good for unschooling
https://sandradodd.com/nvc

photo (a link) by Colleen Prieto

Tension, Level Up, or not

Tension, in the sense of balance, of the interplay of careful safety and wild exploration, of a solid anchoring:
https://sandradodd.com/tension/

Leveling up! If there are stages, and if there are layers (like an onion), there can be the hope and intention of reaching that next level.
https://sandradodd.com/levelup/

A story of NOT Changing—how people can plan and prepare and provision themselves and not actually accomplish any unschooling
Second announcement, because now there are some photos with links.
https://sandradodd.com/change/not

photo (a link) by Cass Kotrba

Discovery Learning, Independence

Additions of comments to Deb Lewis's article Unguided Discovery
https://sandradodd.com/deblewis/discovery

Reminder of a page called Discovery, with something by Joyce Fetteroll
https://sandradodd.com/discovery

New page, looking at a question about how to teach a young child to be independent.
https://sandradodd.com/independence

photo (a link) by Gail Higgins

Resentment, "We", Peace, Monkey Platters

Somehow by accident this collection on resentment was never announced:
https://sandradodd.com/resentment
It's not new, but I've spruced it up. Smells like Pine-Sol now, or roses.

Addition at the bottom of "When Mom's use 'We'":
https://sandradodd.com/we.html

Addition of quote from Meredith, and photo, to "Advantages of Eating in Peace"
https://sandradodd.com/eating/peace

Monkeyplatters! Saved as backup to a MySpace post and sure enough! MySpace is gone.
Story, photos, list of foods.
https://sandradodd.com/monkeyplatters/kiersten.html

photo (a link) by Elise Lauterbach

Pressure, Politics, Late-Night Learning

Addition and clean-up on page about what can happen if parents pressure children:
https://sandradodd.com/pressure

Reminder of an obscure page on politics (might be a good season, if you're reading this in Spring 2020)
It's about problems for children, if parental focus is elsewhere.
https://sandradodd.com/politics

Clean up, additions of photos and links, to Late-Night Learning Comments (several people's stories)
https://sandradodd.com/latenightlearningcomment.html

SOMETHING(s) ELSE:

In the past several months, my website has been moved, my photobucket photos have been moved to that new host site, the archives of some older discussions were moved there (all of that thanks to the generous and tireless work of Vlad Gurdiga), and Always Learning moved from yahoogroups to groups.io—you don't need to be a member to look around in there.

In the next few months will be the 12th Learn Nothing Day, and the 10th Anniversary of Just Add Light and Stir.

Because of all the moving and changes, I'm working every day, either some or for hours, to restore, update, shore up and solidify the images and links in and among those resources. If you find glitches, missing images, bad links, typos, I would appreciate knowing.

Thanks for reading!

photo (a link) by Chelsea Thurman Artisan

University, Young Children, (avoiding) Indignation

Story of me (at 18) getting my younger sister into a state university, added up top.
Additional update on Pam Sorooshian's daughters, all of whom have masters' degrees now, at the bottom.
https://sandradodd.com/teen/college

Rearrangement and clean-up of the page on young children:
https://sandradodd.com/youngchildren
I moved the list of ideas from a sidebar to the top of the page,but they came out of the chat below that. In between I collected some resources and links people mentioned or set afterward.

Addition, commentary and brief section of the film "Harvey," near the top of
https://sandradodd.com/indignation

photo (a link) by Nicole Kenyon

Unschooling works; Antagonism; What?

"Unschooling works," an article from 2002, and a bit of update, with links to other older writings.
https://sandradodd.com/unschoolingworks

Avoiding Antagonism (Us vs. Them), and avoid accepting or believing things in batches.
https://sandradodd.com/antagonism

What does this have to do with unschooling? A poop question and less poopy answers:
https://sandradodd.com/what

photo (a link) by Nina Haley

Structure, connections, unschooling is...,

Text of the first page of the book Moving a Puddle, about the structure of unschooling days.
https://sandradodd.com/structure

Addition to connections, writing by Jen Keefe, right under the Pacman dots.
https://sandradodd.com/connections/

Clarity and purpose, while looking at what unschooling is:
https://sandradodd.com/unschoolingis

photo (a link) by Janine Davies

50/50; Happiness Inside and Out; Stages

Why 50/50 is a problem (new page)
https://sandradodd.com/50/50

"Happiness Inside and Out"—addition of some indicators of where things are in the recording, and link to a partial transcript
https://sandradodd.com/hsc/happiness

Stages of Unschooling—directory page, with an excerpt from The Big Book of Unschooling
https://sandradodd.com/stages/

photo (a link) by Lydia Koltai

"We," Voices, Food/Control,

Brief, new, wherein "we have had tantrums" (said the mom, of a reaction to a punishment she provided)
https://sandradodd.com/we

Addition (third item, something from 2004) to "Voices in your Head"
https://sandradodd.com/voices

Long, interesting, from 2013, about food, control, negativity and its effects, and a demo of resistance to help.
"What problems can come?"
https://sandradodd.com/eating/arguments2013

photo (a link) by Jen Keefe

Balance (food), tooth care, slogans

How does it balance out? Additional story, and a good image is showing that had not before
SandraDodd.com/eating/balance

Three collections of questions, answers, ideas and links about tooth care, links updated, format spruced up:

https://sandradodd.com/dentist
https://sandradodd.com/teeth
https://sandradodd.com/teeth2

Slogans—when a phrase can be a rallying cry, or a point of irritating confusion.
https://sandradodd.com/slogans

photo (a link) by Vlad Gurdiga

Bonding, Principles, French

Family Bonding, recording, image, and transcript, of an episode of The Unschooling Life Podcast, now has a page on my site:
https://sandradodd.com/familybonding and at YouTube.

That led to some corrections and additions at the page on Principles.
https://sandradodd.com/principles/

The French language and translation pages have been stabilized and improved!

For eight months, I couldn't even open the admin area there, or all the "special characters" (French letters and punctuation) would have turned to question marks, in the code. Other problems caused some titles and art not to show. Now, thanks to the generous volunteer assistance of Vlad Gurdiga, a dad from Always Learning, the site was moved. He found a platform that could support its quirks and antiquity, and set up a back-stage editing area for me there. Now I've touched every French page (I hope).
https://sandradodd.com/french/

photo (a link) by Sarah Elizabeth

Joy, Helping kids get along, "Chemicals"

Not new, but never announced before — more about Joy, with a coloring page:
https://sandradodd.com/joy2

New writing, a list of ways to help kids get along better, by Cass Kotrba, second large item:
https://sandradodd.com/peace/fighting

The avoidance of chemicals can't happen, so how can we live peacefully? Jen Keefe knows. Below the strawberries:
https://sandradodd.com/chemicals

photo (a link) by Sobia Itwaru